Sole or heel plate



A. MACALUSO.

SOLE 0R HEEL P LATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23I 19I9. RENEWED AUG. I5, 1921.

1,406,401. v Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

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ANTQNIO MAGALUSO, OF GENEVA, OHIO.

SOLE 0R HEEL PLATE.

templated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to sole or heel plates for shoes. The design of the invention is to provide a device oi. this character which shall serve efficiently to protect the sole or heel but which shall not damage the edges of the sole or heel.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, such disclosed means, however, constituting but one of the various forms in which the principle of my invention may be exemplified.

In said annexed drawing:

Figure 1 represents an elevation of a shoe whose heel and sole are provided with my improved plates;

Figure 2 represents a bottom plan view of said shoe;

Figure 3 represents a bottom plan view of one of the plates;

Figure t represents a side elevation of the plate shown in Figure 3;

Figure 5 represents a central vertical lopgitudinal section, taken in the plane V-\ Figure 3; and

Figure 6 represents a rearelevation oi the plate shown in Figure 3.

In the annexed drawing, my improved plate is indicated by the ordinal 1, same be ing attached to the sole 2 and the heel 8 of a shoe 4. The attachment is made by the means of holding prongs 5 and 6. The plate 1 is preferably formed of a hard steel. member and has, preferably, an oval peripheral edge portion 7 and a plane edge portion 8. The oval edge portion 7, conforms to the sha e of the heel or toe, as plainly shown in igure 2.

Now, the holding prongs are so tormed upon the body portion of the plate, relatively to the edge portions 7 and 8, as efficiently to hold the plate in a fixed position and yet not damage the edges of the heel or sole.

The holding prongs are three in number, in the form of device shown, and comprise Specification of Letters Patent. Pate td F b 14 1 22 Application filed July 23, 1919, Serial No. 312,767.

Renewed August 15, 1921. Serial No. 492,585.

one prong 5 struck up from the material of the body 1 and projecting from the central portion of said body. It is evident that this prong 5 will be disposed a substantial distance from the edges of the heel or sole. A l 1 said prong 5 serves, howeveneliiciently to hold the edges of the heel or sole.

The prongs 6 are two in number, preferably, and are disposed adjacently the greatest diameter of the oval peripheral edge portion 7, illustrated by the dotted line 7 4",

Figure 3. Said prongs 6 also intersect the plane peripheral edge portion 8 and, preferably, are disposed in planes at right angles to said edge portion 8. Now, the said edge portion 8 is substantially less in length than said diameter 7 7 of the edge portion 7. as' plainly indicated by the dotted line S-8, Figure 3. The result is that, in any position of the plate in which the oval edge portion 7 conforms to the shape or the sole or heel, the prongs 6 are disposed a substantial distance from the edges of the heel or sole so as not to damage said edges.

I wish to call particular attention to the fact that the pair or? holding prongs 6 and the prong 5 are rectangular in cross-section but that the longer dimension or the rectangle of either of the prongs 6 lies in a vertical plane not parallel with the plane containing the longer dimensions of the rectangular section of the prong 5. Preferably, the ver tical planes containing these respective longer dimensions are perpendicular to each other. This relative disposition oi the prongs 5 and 6 results in a very secure holding of the prongs in the leather because one or more of the prongs is certain to hold eliiciently in the grain of the leather, A set of prongs all of which extend in parallel planes, in so far as the respective dimensions or their cross-sections are concerned, either easily are loosened or entirely pulled out or must be bent in order to make them hold. I am enabled by the construction described to use a set of prongs extending parallel one to another, in so far as the face of the body member 1 is concerned, but which are relatively'staggered so that corresponding dimensions'o'f their cross-sections do not lie in parallel vertical planes, so that very ef ficient holding is obtained.

I have ascertained that a plate formed with holding prongs, in the manner described and hereinafter claimed and as shown in the accompanying drawing, very efficiently serves to protect weak spots on any part of the heel or sole, especially the toe of a shoe that has worn down, and at the same time obviates all danger of what has heretofore been a great detect in the service of said plates, viz., the damage occasioned thereby to the edges of the heels and soles.

What I claim is:

1. A sole or heel plate comprising a body member provided with an oval peripheral edge portion and a plane inner edge portion, said body member being formed with a holding prong projecting from its central body portion, and with a pair of holding prongs intersecting the ends of said plane inner edge portion, said inner edge portion being substantially less in length than the contiguous diameter of said oval peripheral edge portion.

2. A sole or heel plate comprising a body member formed with a holding prong projecting from its central portion, Said memher being formed with a plane inner peripheral edge portion, and a plurality of holding prongs intersecting said plane inner peripheral edge portion. y

3. A sole or heel plate comprising a body member formed with an oval outer edge portion and a plane inner edge portion, said member formed with a holding prong projecting from its central portion, and a plurality of holding prongs intersecting the plane inner edge portion and disposed at a right angle to said inner edge portion.

4. A sole or heel plate comprising a body member formed with an oval outer edge portion and a plane inner edge portion, said member having a holding prong projecting from its central portion, and a holding prong projecting from each side of said Jlane inner ed e aortion at a ri ht an de to C D b the last named edge portion.

Signed by me this 15th day of'July, 1919.

ANTONIO MACALUSO. 

